Contact tracing and epidemics control in social networks
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
2009-11-07 v1 Populations and Evolution
Abstract
A generalization of the standard susceptible-infectious-removed (SIR) stochastic model for epidemics in sparse random networks is introduced which incorporates contact tracing in addition to random screening. We propose a deterministic mean-field description which yields quantitative agreement with stochastic simulations on random graphs. We also analyze the role of contact tracing in epidemics control in small-world networks and show that its effectiveness grows as the rewiring probability is reduced.
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@article{arxiv.nlin/0204012,
title = {Contact tracing and epidemics control in social networks},
author = {Ramon Huerta and Lev S. Tsimring},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0204012},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL